English Baroque Soloists: Mozart & Haydn

Mozart with his imagination on fire, and Haydn at the top of his game. Classical sunshine on a January night from John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists. Some works of art defy words. Caught out at short notice, Mozart wrote…

All the splendour and majesty of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio – performed over two nights by the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner.  Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage – Celebrate, rejoice, rise up and praise these days! Johann Sebastian…

All the splendour and majesty of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio – performed over two nights by the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner.  Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage – Celebrate, rejoice, rise up and praise these days! Johann Sebastian…

Programme Maya Youssef, ‘Queen of the Qanun’ plays music from her latest album Finding Home, with her 12-piece ensemble. The qanun (a 78-stringed plucked instrument from the Middle East) is at the heart of Maya’s evocative soundworld, which is infused with a…

Hail, Mary! A Górecki premiere and a newly-commissioned mass are at the heart of The Gesualdo Six’s exploration of Polish music’s very special relationship with the Mother of God. For many Polish Catholics, the Virgin Mary is revered as the eternal Queen…

Soul music from the heart of a vanished Russia, as Nigel Short and Tenebrae perform Rachmaninoff’s Vespers.  Passionate, serene, and rooted in a deep and heartfelt faith, Sergei Rachmaninoff said that he loved his Vespers above all his other works. Written as…

Ralph Allwood’s Rodolfus Choir unlocks a treasure-house of Polish sacred music in this ravishing final concert of the 2022 Joy and Devotion festival. Drawn from Britain’s very finest young choral singers, The Rodolfus Choir is a choir with a striking difference; an…

Music of hope in an age of oppression: Polyphony showcases the impassioned, little-known music that Polish composers wrote in tribute to Pope John Paul II. In October 1978 Karel Wojtyłla was elected to the Papacy as John Paul II: the first ever…

Britain was once insulted with the rather unflattering nickname of ‘das Land ohne Musik’, or ‘the country without music’ by 19th century Germany. But with a home-grown musical tradition of its own and a distinctive set of British composers emerging in the…